These "Sugar Daddy" sites make no apologies about what they do - they help rich men target attractive young women and they help attractive, young women find men who will bankroll their needs. Wade claims there's a market for these kind of mutually beneficial arrangements, and he's absolutely right. In Wade's opinion, having money and success level the playing field for guys like him - guys who weren't incredibly popular or blessed with model good looks in their younger years, and he also feels that women "shouldn't be afraid of using the resources and assets given to them to find what they truly deserve from a relationship."

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Wow.

As a middle-aged woman who can no longer claim the word "young" unless I'm talking to an AARP member, this whole article makes me feel slightly nauseous. Like I'm glad that men like him sign up for sites like that so I can weed them right the hell out of my dating pool. It's obvious that if they even deigned to click on my profile, they'd be tossing me aside the second somebody younger and firmer shows up, because they think their money entitles them to that.

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But then again....

Who are they hurting, signing up for a site like this? They both know what they're getting into, right? If one of the main things a woman wants out of that relationship is access to a healthy bank account, and she's willing to trade on her youth and beauty for it, and the man knows she's the kind of girl who wants exactly that, then nobody's really deceiving anybody, are they? Like Mr. Wade says - it's a mutually beneficial arrangement.

According to Brandon Wade, negotiating these kinds of "arrangements" is the future of dating, and that might be partly true. But I still think there are people out there, people who didn't luck out in looks, or in money, or can no longer believably claim to be twenty-something, who still have plenty of value to bring to the table. People who still believe in finding that spark with someone, and then feeding it and nurturing it into a full-blown relationship that elevates them both and makes them better people because of it.

We're still out here, Brandon. And I think there's room enough for all of us in the dating world. I just hope it stays that way.

Do you think the dating world is morphing into sites full of "arrangements" like these? Is this really "the future of dating?"